47 WHEN VACATED. AN ACT relating to certain Streets in the City of Milwaukee. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: IN THIRD WARD. SECTION 1. The president and board of trustees of the town of Milwaukee, or the aldermen of the third ward of the city of Milwaukee, are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax on the lots fronting each side of Main street, between Huron street and the Milwaukee river, for the purpose of grading said street, and the special tax so levied shall not exceed two-thirds of the costs of said improvement, and may be collected at the same time, and in the same manner as the general tax of said town or city. IN FIFTH WARD. SEC. 2. The president and the board of trustees of the town of Milwaukee, or the aldermen of the fifth ward of the city of Milwaukee, are hereby authorized and empowered to extend and grade South Water street, and levy a special tax on the real estate benefitted thereby; and the special tax so levied shall not exceed three-fourths of the costs of said improvement, and may be collected at the same time, and in the same manner as the general tax of said town or city. APPROVED February 2, 1846. AN ACT to authorize the City of Milwaukee to borrow money, and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and House of Representa tives of the Territory of Wisconsin : LOAN AUTHORIZED. SECTION 1. That the mayor and common council of the city of Milwaukee be and are hereby authorized, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, to borrow, on the faith of 'said city, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the aggregate, fifteen thousand dollars, for any term or terms not less than ten years, and at such rate or rates of interest not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, as to them shall seem expedient. HOW APPROPRIATED. SEC. 2. That the whole of the moneys so borrowed shall be appropriated to the purchase of suitable sites, and to the construction of school houses in the city of Milwaukee, and to no other purpose whatever. SPECIAL TAX. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the mayor and common council of said city, and they are hereby authorized to levy and collect annually on the taxable property within said city, in addition to the taxes already authorized by law, a sum sufficient to pay and discharge the interest on such loan or loans as the same becomes due, and also such further sum as to them shall seem expedient, to constitute a sinking fund for the final liquidation of the principal of the loan or loans so made, as the same become due; and the proceeds of every such ta shall be applied to the payment of the interest and principal of such loan or loans, and to no other purpose whatever. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect when a majority of the legal voters of said city, voting upon said question, shall vote it favor of the same, at any election called by the common council for that purpose. WILLIAM SHEW, mayor and Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED January 25, 1847. HENRY DODGE. President of the Council, AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the City of Milwaukee." BE IT ENACTED by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin : OFFICERS ELECTED. SECTION 1. At each annual election hereafter to be held in the city of Milwaukee, as provided by the act to which this is amendatory, there shall be elected in the same manner, and for the same term as the mayor of the said city is now elected, one treasurer, one city attorney, and one marshal ; and there shall also be elected in each ward in said city, at the same time, in the same manner, and for the same term that aldermen are now elected in the several wards, three assessors, one constable, and one street inspector.* THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES. SEC. 2. The officers whose election is provided for in the preceding section, shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be subject to the same liabilities as if they had been appointed by the common council of said city, and said officers may be removed for incompetency, or malfeasance in office in the same manner as justices of the peace in said city may by law be removed.* FIREMEN. SEC. 3. All members of any fire engine, hook and ladder, or hose company, organized by the common council of said city, shall be exempt from jury duty, military duty, and poll tax, during the continuance of such membership; and any person having served the full term of seven years in either of said companies, shall be forever thereafter exempt from jury duty, and poll tax, and from military duty except in cases of insurrection or invasion. CHATTEL MORTGAGES. SEC. 4. Chattel mortgages filed in the office of the clerk of said city, shall be valid and legal, as if the same had been filed in the town clerk's office, or recorded in the office of the register of deeds. REPEALS. SEC. 5. So much of the act to which this is amendatory, as gives to the common council of said city the power to appoint a treasurer, attorney, marshal, constables, assessors, or street inspectors, and so much thereof as requires the *Repealed March 12, 1849. payment of any tax or membership in a fire company, as a qualification for an elector, is hereby repealed.* WILLIAM SHEW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to authorize the levy of a Special Tax bin the Third Ward of the City of Milwaukee.. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and House of Repre sentatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: 2 1 SECTION. 1. That the aldermen of the third ward of the city of Milwaukee be, and they are hereby authorized to levy and collect a special tax on the city lots lying in the marsh south of Huron, street, and east of East, Water street, in said ward; said tax to be applied to grading, filling, or constructing the streets in said ward, in front of said lots: Provided, that the special tax so to be levied ed and collected shall not exceed three-fourths of the cost of [the] grading, filling, or constructing of said streets, and that the said tax shall be apportioned upon said lots according to their respective fronts. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED March 11, 1848. HENRY DODGE. *Repealed March 12, 1849. President of the Council. |